Lot 267
Bible; English; Authorised version
The Holy Bible
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 253 to 285
Description
Conteyning the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the Originall Tongues and with the Former Translated diligently compared and revised by his Majesties Speciall Commandement. London: Robert Barker, 1613. Folio in sixes (37.8 x 24.8cm), modern leather, 508 ff., A-B4 C6 D4, A-4M6 4N4, text in black letter, in two columns, 72 lines, general and New Testament title-pages each with woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces throughout, bound with additional material comprising engraved title from a Book of Common Prayer at front, 17 leaves probably from an 18th-century BCP between preliminary quires B and C, the Genealogies (A-C6) and John Speed's engraved double-page map 'The whole land of Canaan' between D and A (end of Kalendar etc. and beginning of OT (Genealogies consolidated in fore margins, map closely trimmed and with repairs and losses), occasional 17th-century annotations. Leaves closely trimmed along top edge often shaving headlines, preliminary quires A-B with extensive losses and repairs (including to border of general title-page), occasional damp-staining and concomitant softening and repairs to fore margins (notably: OT A1-2 repairs to lower fore corners; M4-5 with tears to lower fore corners affecting side-notes; Q-S fore margins consolidated; 2H fore margins frayed; 3V1 with marginal tear affecting side-note; 3V5 with repaired closed tear to lower fore corner), 3R2 and 3R5 (Apocrypha) respectively with closed tear and large area of loss, 4E6 with small closed tear in text; 4H with damp-staining and softening to fore margins, and 4H2-3 repaired), 4I-M with repairs to fore margins, 4L1-2 with loss of text at foot of gutter, more extensive repairs in 4L4-6 affecting side-notes or text, 4N (final quire) shorter and possibly supplied, with extensive losses and repairs, losses to text replaced in manuscript, damp-staining to middle of volume (commencing at 2K, Psalms) [ESTC S122066; Herbert 322; STC 2226]
Footnote
Third folio edition of the Authorised or King James Bible, following the Great ‘He’ Bible of 1611 and the ‘Great She Bible’ of 1613, and ‘easily distinguishable from the other large folio editions by its smaller type’ (Herbert), having 72 rather than 59 lines to the column.